Hat-fastener.



A. B. GLINGELEFFER.

HAT FASTENER.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY 22, 1912.

1,063,855, Patented June 3, 1913.

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ALAN BOU'ICHER CLINGELEFFER, OF STEWART ISLAND NEW ZEALAND.

H.AT-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

PatentedJuliet ,1913.

Application filed May 22. 1912. Serial No. 698,947.

To (ZZZ whom it may eonccrn Be it known that I, ALAN iiOU'l'C'IIlGIt thancni nrrnn, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Stewart Island, New Zealand, have invented new and usetul lmproven'ients in Ilat-lt asteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices for fastening' hats to the hair of the wearer oi the type in which spring actuated jaws provided with teeth are used.

According to this invention the device can be attached to any size or shape of hat and can be readily rionoved theretrom tor use in another hat, the same holes being used on all occasions, it cannot be lost by dropping out and there are no sharp points project ing to the danger of persons in the vicinity.

The invention consists in the features and combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 is a side view of the device. Fig. 2 is an end View of the device with the spring actuated jaws closed. Fig. 3 is an end view of the device with the spring actuated jaws open. Fig. t is a POISPOUi'lVQ view of a hat showing the securing pins of the device in position.

Referring to the drawings a pair of similar jaws or combs 1, 2, provided with curved teeth 15, are hinged together by a hinge (17) of which the hinge pin (18) has prolonged ends (19) (20) threaded externally to enter internally threaded tubular nieces (91) (22) which also receive extension pieces 41-, of suitable length to extend across and pass through both sides of the hat (23) the ends having secured thereto ornan'lental knobs (t, 7. Transversely of the hinge is a helical spring (12) lying between the jaws 1, 2, the ends of the spring being secured by nuts 10, 11 to the internally and externally threaded tubular bolts (94.) (25) which pass through the jaws 1, 2 and have nuts 125, 14- thereon which with the helical spring hold the jaws together. Pins 8, 9 externally threaded enter the tubular bolts (26%) (25) and with similar tubular and extension pieces are longenough to extend across the hat transversely to the other series of pins, and pass through both sides ot' the hat (23) the ends terminating in ornan'iental knobs (26) (527). The device having thus been secured to the inside of the hat by means of the pins 4L, 5, 8, 9 it is only necessary to lay hold of the outer ends or knobs (2(3) (Q?) of the trans verse pins 8. 5) with the fingers and pull them outward whereupon the helical spring 12 is extended and the jaws l, 9 are opened sutliciently to permit the teeth to clear the hair of the wearer when the hat is put on, whereupon the knobs (2(3) (:57) are released and the jaws close under the influence of the spring '12 causing the teeth 15 to bury themselves in the hair ol' the wearer. 'lo remove the hat trom the wearer the transverse pins 8, 9 are pulled outward by means of the knobs 26, 27 extending the spring 12 opening the jaws and drawing the teeth out of the hair and so allowing the hat to be taken oft the head of the wearer.

In order to detach the device from the hat the end lengths of each pin are unscrewed whereupon the device becomes detached from the hat and it can then he placed in the same state in another hat and the end lengths ot the pins are passed through the hat 'troin the outside and secured onto the portions inside.

The device may be attached to a hat by sewing.

llaving now described my in vention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters latent is:-

1. in a hat Fastener, the combination of jaws adaptei'l to engage the hair, a pin haw ing screw threaded ends pivotally connecting said jaws together, two internally threaded elements, one for each inserted end of said pin, and two extension pieces each having a screw threaded end and adapted to extend through the crown of the hat and screwed into the said internally threaded elen'ients of said pin, substantially as and For the purpose set torth.

2. in a hat fastener, the continuation of two jaws adapted to swing toward or from each other, tubular nuts, one carried by each jaw, a contractor spring intermediate said jaws and having its ends secured thereto by said nuts, and pins, each having a screw threaded end adapted to be passed through the crown of the hat and inserted into one of said tubular nuts, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a hat "astener, the combination of a jaw, a second jaw adapted to move toward or from said first mentioned jaw, a tubular nut carried by said second mentioned jaw, a contraction spring having one end operatirely connected with said second mentioned jaw by said nut means for connect- In testimony whereof I have signed my mg the other end of stud sprlng W1th Silld name to thlsv speclficatlon 1n the presence of first lnentlon-ed 121W, and a pm havlng a two SUbSGI'lblIlg wltnesses.

screw threaded end adapted to be passed ALAN BOUT HER OLINGELEFFER. through the crown of the hat and inserted Vitnesses:

into said, tubular nut, substantially as and CHARLES HENRY ROBERTS,

for the purpose set forth. JOHN HENRY GILBERTSON.

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